Carriage-body hanger



, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.Ionn BOWSER, or LANCASTER, oHIo.

CARRIAGE-BODY HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters Patent No. 282,436, dated July 31, 1883. 7 Application filed NovemberQ, 1882. (No model.)

- To all whom it may concern/.

. more fully described,.and illustrated in the drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents aplan view of the abovesaid carriage-body hanger; Fig. 2, a side view of the same, and Fig. 3 an end view.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views. 1

The hanger referred to consists of a pair of frames or sections of a frame, A and B. The two outer ends of each of the sections are connected to each other, respectively, by the crossbars 0 and D, Fig. 1, whereas the two inner ends of the sections are openthat is to say, they are unconnected by a cross-bar. The inner ends of the two sections are attached to each them in that relation by the coupling-bands a a and b I). Said bands do not clamp the sides of the sections tightly to each other, but loosely, so that the sides thereof may slide freely in the bands. The two sections, when thus secured together, form an elongated rectangular square frame, as seen in Fig. 1, which may be shortened up or extended more or less by the ends of the two sections of the frame sliding upon each other and through the bands a" and b, for a purpose presently shown.

E is a rest attached to the sides of section A of the frame by the adjusting-screws F and G, screwed into the side pieces, which serve as nuts for working the adj usting-screws, the upper ends of which are pivoted in the ends of the rest, and may be raisedor lowered independently of the other, or both at the same time, as the case may be. I The said adj ustingscrews are operated by the handle H, terminating the lower ends of the screws, as seen in Fig. 2. SectionB of the frame is in like manner'provided with a rest, I, and adjusting-screws J, the upper ends of which are pivoted in the ends of the rest, as are the screws F, but instead of which they are operated by the handnuts K for the purpose above said in reference to the rest E. To the outer ends of each of the I two frames are secured, respectively, the hangers L and M, the upper ends of which terminate in a hook, by which the frame is suspended from the spring-bar of a carriage.

The practical use of the above-described frame is substantially as follows: As aforesaid, the object of the frame is for hanging the body of carriages to the runninggearthat is to say, the frame is for holding the body of the carriage in its proper relation to the runninggear of thevehicletemporarily while the irons, &c., are being fitted thereto for securing the body permanently to the said running-gear. To this end the frame is suspended from the spring-bars by means of the hangers L and What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a device for hanging the body of carriages to the running-gear thereof, a longitudinally-adjustable frame consisting of two sections, A and B, connected to each other by coupling-bands, hangers L and M, provided with terminal hooks, rests E and I, with their respective adjusting-screws, constructed and arranged to operate substantially as. described, and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. JOHN BOWSER.

Witnesses:

ABRAM R. EVERSOLE, HARRY DE LANOY. 

